“Yes. Obviously Steve spoke to me on the Thursday prior to the game on the Friday. Then that came out and on the Monday I was like Jesus what’s happened here – everyone was going mad about it,” he said.

“I didn’t realise how bad it was at the time. Obviously the thought was going through my head then, am I going to get banned, how many games will I miss?

“It was a case of do I get to miss England again or is he going to stick with me? All those things were going through my head. The last week was a bit troublesome, my head was all over the place and I didn’t know what to expect.”